FDA Adds Boldest Warning to Widely Used Opioid Painkillers
Washington — Federal health regulators will add their strongest warning labels to the most widely prescribed painkillers, part of a multi-pronged government campaign to stem an epidemic of abuse and death tied to drugs like Vicodin and Percocet. The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday plans to add a boxed warning — the most serious type — to all immediate-release opioid painkillers, including some 175 branded and generic...
Leadership Upper Valley: Program Inspires Conversations About Region’s Addiction Problem
Long touted as a great place to live, the Upper Valley, like many New England communities, continues to struggle with what experts unanimously agree is an epidemic of logic-defying proportions: heroin addiction. However, unlike the last major epidemic of 50 years ago, today’s addicts aren’t inner-city junkies. Rather, they are all of us: moms and dads, friends and neighbors, teenagers and young adults from loving families and small,...
At the Hospitals: June 7, 2015
Alice Peck Day Names RN of the Year Lebanon — Pat Ferraro, a registered nurse in Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital’s Medical Surgical Unit, was named 2015 RN of the year in celebration of National Nurses Week, held May 6-12. Ferraro was the nurse that best exemplified this year’s theme , ethical and quality practice, the hospital said in a news release. A member of APD’s nursing team for more than 29 years, Ferraro was selected by her...
